LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Tamworth High Level Station: mrthl444

Ex-Midland Railway 1P 4-2-2 'Spinner' No 644 pilots ex-MR 2P 4-4-0 No 440 passes through Tamworth station on an up express service on 27th June 1925. Despite it being two and a half years since the formation of the LMS and the demise of the Midland Railway as an independent company, the above scene is purely Midland with the sole exception of the Midland brake van carrying LMS on its side. The Spinner was built by Derby works in March 1892 and was to last in service less than a year more being withdrawn from service in April 1926.

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